Stella Campbell

How I will be lured to my death.

Thankful for the resounding support from @churchscotland to call out the inhumane and cruel treatment of those seeking asylum via the Rwanda bill and the need for us all to tell a better story about welcome, hospitality and belonging.

@thehopekirkmarj @shunad I'm ok.

don’t keep your emotions bottled up

@HMRCcustomers I completed a self assessment return. The amount relating to student loan repayments is bigger than the amount I owe. The total is to be paid through my PAYE code. I would like to get the code changed to ensure I don't overpay.

@StellaLCampbell Hi Stella, thanks for asking. Just to check are you completing a tax return and being asked about student loan repayments? Martin

@HMRCcustomers what advice would you recommend to avoid the overpayment of a student loan through self assessment tax collected by a tax code.

Word of the day (again) is ‘unasinous’: ‘united in stupidity’. A 17th-century riff on ‘unanimous’ (literally, of ‘one mind’), based on the Latin for behaving like ‘one ass’.

Loved recording this little-known night prayer for #lectio365. You may like to use it in this special #Lent season.

Love is.. 😊

The branch manager 📹lydebug twitter.com/CherguiaGroup/…

If you listen to anything day, let it be this. The poignant words from @PatricKielty closing the @RTELateLateShow. Listen, hear them. From a man who has known war, its tue impact and consequences. I echo with the entrancing apt words of Seamus Heaney:

Today the Fijian Choir of @3SCOTS_CO sang at Crathie Kirk for the congregation and, the King and Queen. A very powerful performance complimented by a marvellous sermon. @churchscotland @ASengaged @The_SCOTS @ArmyinScotland @ArmyChaplaincy

one day..

thank you

@KateRobbins Just the one Mrs Wembley.

Been chatting to friends, and this is now a question best put to probably over 40 yr olds… What is the catchphrase of your ‘youth’ that you most genuinely rate as the best? I’m saying, ‘Titter Ye Not’ ( Frankie Howerd : Up Pompeii 1969)

Hidden in the hollow of his mighty hand, where no harm can follow, in his strength we stand: we may trust him fully all for us to do; those who trust him wholly find him wholly true. - Frances R Havergal (1836-79)

We join Scottish Faith Leaders as they call on @scotgov to extend #FreeBusTravel to people seeking asylum. A small change that would be positively lifechanging for many! 🧡 Read our statement and share: tinyurl.com/5f27ayaj

It’s been one of those “don’t ask” sort of days. Actually I can’t remember the last time I had a “please do ask” sort of day.

God has never remained, like a part-time repairman, waiting on our phone call when something needs fixing. When he invades our lives, he kick-starts a long process of deconstruction and reconstruction. C. S. Lewis pictured it this way: “Imagine yourself as a living house. God comes in to rebuild that house. At first, perhaps, you can understand what he is doing. He is getting the drains right and stopping the leaks in the roof and so on: you knew that those jobs needed doing and so you are not surprised. But presently he starts knocking the house about in a way that hurts abominably and does not seem to make sense. What on earth is He up to? The explanation is that he is building quite a different house from the one you thought of—throwing out a new wing here, putting on an extra floor there, running up towers, making courtyards. You thought you were going to be made into a decent little cottage: but He is building a palace. He intends to come and live in it Himself.” When Jesus “starts knocking the house about in a way that hurts abominably,” when his work in our lives “does not seem to make sense,” then he’s really getting somewhere. He’s pounding gaping holes in the painted drywall of our own wisdom to reveal the termite-infested 2x4s on the other side. Ripping up the carpet to point out an inch-wide crack in the foundation. What we thought would take a few months to fix and fancy up will, it turns out, require a lifetime of labor. But Christ is okay with that. He was, after all, raised in the home of a carpenter. And he’ll take his sweet time. C. S. Lewis says he “intends to come and live in it Himself,” but the truth is, he’s already moved in, put his underwear and socks in the drawers, and buckled on his tool belt. He’s here for the long haul. -from my book, Upside-Down Spirituality: The 9 Essential Failures of a Faithful Life

The Bible is the story of God’s great love for his children. May King Charles continue to know that love as he prepares for the Coronation. Join us in our #CoronationPrayers for each day until May 6th: bit.ly/3MKBRN7